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Week 38 · 2026English editionRecord

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Place

Banakia Dam

Earthen dam · RA11MH0060

Banakia Dam is an earthen dam on the Local Nala in Chittorgarh district, Rajasthan, completed in 1962; the National Register of Specified Dams 2025 records it as 12.13 m high above lowest foundation level, a crest length of 2,190 m, with a gross storage capacity of 9.44 million cubic metres (register identifier RA11MH0060).

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Banakia Dam is at 24.9042° N, 74.5025° E, per the register's coordinates.
Banakia Dam is at 24.9042° N, 74.5025° E, per the register’s coordinates. Boundary: DataMeet community maps (divisions dataset, 2011 Census), CC BY 4.0.

Location

Measurements

  • Height above lowest foundation level · 12.13 m

  • Crest length · 2190 m

  • Gross storage capacity · 9.44 MCM

  • Live storage capacity · 9.27 MCM

  • Spillway capacity · 849.33 m³/s

Source for the figures above

  • National Register of Specified Dams 2025cwc.gov.in

    “"Specified Dam" means a dam constructed before or after the commencement of this Act, which is, — (i) above fifteen metres in height, measured from the lowest portion of the general foundation area to the top of dam”

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Also on Dams of Chittorgarh District

Banakia Dam is no. 2 of 25 on this list.